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• The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
  It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincol...
• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhaue
• Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose
  it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb...
• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance.
  But that is afterward decided, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes....
• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Conduct of Life", 1860...